Arms & Sleepers
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
(Fake Chapter)
by Nicholas Hubbard
01.06.08
The scene: a snowy day at the start of December.
Me: groggy, just waking up from a severe episode of vivid dreams and scribbling things in my bedside notebook.
This album: one long score to a surreal noir, a surreal noir about a slow dawn in a cybernetic urban landscape of the future.
In the history of fantastic albums with off-putting titles full of pretense, we have reached another milestone. Go ahead, let yourself drift off listening to Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. Don’t mind the title, it’s actually appropriate, though “bliss” here seems to have a vast definition: quiet, dark, rich, somber, and vaporous.
Electronic music like this tends to be judged on atmosphere; if you like where it takes you, it’s successful (think Massive Attack, Nightmares on Wax). And though the setting of Blade Runner isn’t a happy one, we all want to go there late, late at night when the party’s over and most of the world has gone to sleep.
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